Great Coxwell News and Blog

FARINGDON NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN - WICKLESHAM QUARRY. LITTLE COXWELL AND FARINGDON MEETINGS

16/5/2015

Faringdon Neighbourhood Plan is open for public consultation for six weeks from 15th May to 26th June 2015. Anyone can comment, although only Faringdon electors will vote in the referendum.

Great Coxwell residents are invited to a meeting at Little Coxwell on Tuesday 19th May at 7.30pm to discuss the implications of Wicklesham Quarry's inclusion in the plan as 'safeguarded
employment land' and to set out ways of objecting. Please see the attached notice which sets out concerns raised about the snowball effects of over-development. If included, Wicklesham will MORE THAN DOUBLE the employment land target for Faringdon set by independent reviews.

On 20th May at 7.30pm a public meeting will be held at the Friends Meeting Hall in Faringdon, to debate the issues of Wicklesham Quarry in more detail. All are welcome (space permitting)!
If you would like more information please contact Anna Hoare at Little Coxwell.

COXWELL ROAD WORKS

16/5/2015

There are road works starting on the 24th May - 3rd August on Coxwell Road near Coleshill Drive, on the brow of the hill. They are widening the footpath and putting in street lights and bus shelters.

A THANK YOU FROM LIZZIE

16/5/2015

Thank you everyone who supported me in the London Marathon. I had a great day and despite injury and finished with a time of 5 1/2 hours and am really happy.

I've raised over £1700 for Mind Charity and am really grateful to everyone who sponsored me. I'm sure you'll all see me running around the village when I come back home for weekend visits.

Thanks so much,
Lizzie Renfrey

GREAT COXWELL WI

10/5/2015

Our next meeting is on Tuesday 12 th May at 7.30 in the Reading Room when Shaun Mc Cormack will be telling us about his life as the Queen's Bodyguard, a member of the Yeoman of the Guard.

We know this will be a particularly interesting evening and invite other women in the village to come along.

We hope to see you there.

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

10/5/2015

May 10th - Rogation Prayer Walk and Family Communion service - meet at 10.00 am at the Great Barn.
May 10th - TEAS in the Reading Room and Children's art workshop 2.30 - 5.30pm.
May 16, 17, 23, 24 and 25 - Artweeks in the village 11am - 5.30pm.
May 17th - Concert at Stonevale 4pm.
May 18th - Parish Council meeting in the Reading Room - all welcome 8pm.
June 5th - National Trust presentation of new trails up at Badbury Clump in the Reading Room.
June 13th - Live at the Tithe at the Great Barn (or Tithe Barn!).
July 4th - Vicarage Garden Party.

More details of these events below and on our dedicated webpages.

ST GILES CHURCH

10/5/2015

As we near Artweeks my thoughts are turning especially to the many people who will be visiting Great Coxwell and its Church over these two weekends, but also to all those who will be visiting the Church and the Great Barn over the months ahead. We are blessed with having two well-visited mediaeval buildings at each end of the village, and we will be making a special journey from the Great Barn to the Church on Rogation Sunday, May 10th, when there will be a Prayer Walk followed by a Family Communion service in church, as we seek God's blessing on the crops and the harvest, in a time-honoured farming festival that has recently been revived in the Badbury Group of Churches.

During Artweeks, there will be the popular plant sales and floral displays in the church, but this year there will be a new addition - a self-guided quiz and trail, which will reveal to visitors some of the lesser-known features of the church.

We are also developing links with Kelmscott Manor (where William Morris lived, and which is open to the public). William Morris has associations with our church and others in the Badbury Group, and if you visit Kelmscott Manor you can see his brass-rubbing of our monumental brass to the Morys family. We are exploring with Kelmscott the possibility of a local William Morris trail.

Here are our regular and special services and events over the next two months. As you see, several services will be joint services with Coleshill.

May
Sunday 10th Great Coxwell Rogation Prayer Walk and Family Communion joint service (begins at the Great Barn at 10.00 am).
Thursday 14th Ascension Day Holy Communion joint service at Coleshill at 7.30 pm.
Sunday 24th Pentecost Family Communion joint service at Coleshill at 10.30 am.
Saturday 30th Parish Ramble: circular walk from Buscot to Eaton Hastings, begins at Buscot Church at 11.00 am.
Sunday 31st Trinity Sunday Communion service for the Badbury Group of Churches at Great Coxwell at 10.30 am.

June
Sunday 14th Holy Communion at 10.30 am.
Sunday 28th Evening Prayer at 6.00 pm.

There is also the Vicarage Garden Party on Saturday July 4th, to which you are all invited, but I'll be saying more about July in the next issue of the Newsletter.

With all good wishes,

Your friend and vicar, David

GREAT COXWELL ARTISTS

10/5/2015

Exhibitions open 16, 17 and 23, 24 and 25 May, 11am - 5.30pm. Venue number 344.

Five exhibition spaces showing painting, stone-carving, bookbinding, jewellery, photography and woodcarving. Delicious coffees, lunches and teas in the pretty Reading Room. Much of the work is inspired by the Great Barn and the woodcarvers will be demonstrating there. Plant sale at the church.

Please come and see us and look us up on facebook - Great Coxwell Artists.

DON'T FORGET THE CHILDREN'S ART WORKSHOP

10/5/2015

This year we are holding this as part of the TEAS. On Sunday 10th May any time between 2.30 and 5.30pm. Everyone of any age welcome to come along and decorate a bunting flag. The bunting will be hung up in the Reading Room during Artweeks. We will provide paper flags, pens and crayons and free cupcakes and juice to all artists.

Great Coxwell Parish Council

Great Coxwell Parish Council
Great Coxwell
Oxfordshire
United Kingdom
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